Darkblade and the Diary
is an Alternate Universe Fic made by RockSunner, for Miraculous Ladybug. Part of the Smart Adversaries AU for Miraculous Ladybug on AO3, in which Ladybug villains make smarter decisions. The series has a tropes page here.
This is a one-chapter work.
This fanfiction series contains examples of:
- Alternate Universe Fic: A What If? with the change that Chloe comes up with a plan to show her leadership during the Darkblade attack, and Sabrina figures out a way to use Darkblade to break into Marinette's diary box in order to get pictures of diary pages.
- Bittersweet Ending: Darkblade is stopped, Sabrina is starting to turn on Chloe, and Marinette is elected class president. However, Adrien found out about the phone, and that apparently Marinette has stalked him enough to have copies of his schedule, so he ends their friendship, meaning things are going to be interesting if Ladybug and Chat unmask to one another.
- Heel–Face Turn: Sabrina turns to support Marinette in the class election out of guilt for the diary trick.
- Guile Hero: (Anti-Hero in this case). Sabrina tricks and distracts Darkblade for her own sinister purposes. She is thanked by Ladybug for being helpful.
- Karma Houdini: Averted. Marinette does not get away with stealing Adrien's phone, as revealed in the diary. It causes a severe friendship break-up, and a Downer Ending. It's still somewhat played straight, as Adrien chooses not to press charges (as he would be allowed to do for theft of property) or file for a restraining order (which he would also be allowed to do (or have his father apply for one)).
- While Chloe succeeds in her actions, she isn't punished for taking advantage of the Akuma attack to further her own ends. At best she loses the class presidency, but she's split up Marinette and Adrien in such a way as to burn the bridges between the two.
- Stalking is Love: Played realistically, as Adrien finds it very disturbing when he finds out that Marinette has followed him enough to have copies of his schedule.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Adrien tells Marinette off for stalking him, stealing his phone, and breaking into it.
